Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I've found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn't… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think man needs to feel a special position within nature, and this leads him to believe that he is either… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Cut off from direct experience, cut off from our own feelings and sometimes our own sensations, we are only too ready to… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid,… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“it is important to recognize that the behavior of the two antagonists mirrors each other, like a Rorschach inkblot. The value of a Rorschach… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs,… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
